Hyperflite co-founder, Peter Bloeme is director of the Skyhoundz Championships. In this role, he manages more than 100 Local Championships, 18 U.S. and International Qualifiers, a European Championship, and the World Championship.
Bloeme’s career of tossing, skipping, bouncing, spinning, and twirling a plastic disc began when he finished third overall and first in distance at the Junior National Frisbee Championships at the age of 15. In 1976, at the age of 19, he won the World Frisbee Championships at the Rose Bowl in California before 40,000 disc fans.
In 1983, Bloeme added a new element to his flying disc repertoire — a black and white Border Collie named Whirlin’ Wizard. The two went on to win the 1984 World Canine Frisbee Disc Championship making Wizard, at less than 2 years old, the youngest dog, at the time, to win the title. At the same time, Bloeme became the only person to win a world title both by himself and with his dog.
In 1990, Bloeme added a little magic to his routine — literally — with the addition of Magic, a black and white Australian Shepherd. Over the years, Bloeme, Wizard, and Magic performed hundreds of disc dog demonstrations at sporting events including Major League Baseball, National Basketball Association, National Football League, and World Football League games.
Bloeme and his canine companions have also performed numerous times before sold-out stadium crowds all around the world. They have performed half-time shows at sporting events and have made public appearances in countries including Belgium, Canada, China, England, France, Germany, Hungry, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Sweden, and The Netherlands. Perhaps his most notable appearance was at the 1995 Japanese Baseball All-Star Game in Hiroshima, Japan where, after the seventh inning, the game was stopped for a ten-minute exhibition by Bloeme and four Japanese dogs. Bloeme’s performance was viewed live by a sold-out crowd of 40,000 fans plus an estimated 26 million people on television via the Tokyo Broadcasting System.
During the 1970’s, Bloeme served as technical advisor to CBS Sports for a half-hour television special on Frisbee and toured Europe as a representative of the International Frisbee Association.
Bloeme and his dogs have appeared on television in the U.S. hundreds of times, including featured appearances on shows such as Good Morning America, Late Night with David Letterman, and on CNN and ESPN. You may remember seeing Wizard opening the Disney movie, Flight of the Navigator. In a Miller Lite television ad, Bloeme was responsible for the on-camera disc action. Wizard even had a walk-on role in the spot. Bloeme has also served twice as the color commentator for Animal Planet in their one-hour specials on the World Canine Frisbee Disc Championships.
In 2001, Bloeme, Jeff Perry (1989 World Canine Frisbee Disc Champion and Hall of Famer), and Greg Perry founded Hyperflite, a company dedicated to developing advanced disc technology. Their first disc, the K-10 for dogs was introduced in July of 2001.
Bloeme is author of the book, Frisbee Dogs: How to Raise, Train and Compete, a 192-page paperback, illustrated with over 300 photographs and the book, Skyhoundz Images, an 80-page hardcover photo book on the sport with captions in English, Japanese, and Spanish ($19.95 U.S.).
Bloeme also co-wrote/co-produced, along with Jeff Perry, Disc Dogs! The Complete Guide ($29.95), the most comprehensive canine disc training treatise ever written, as well as the internationally-acclaimed Disc Dogs! Training DVD ($24.95), the top-selling disc dog DVD of and all time.
